Trip to the DC Zoo on Sunday

[GTaudiophile]

Fellow ATOTer Jawo and I went off to the DC Zoo last Sunday and shot ourselves lots of animals!

It was my first trip with my new EF 70-200 F4L IS, and I am pleased with some of the results, despite overcast/cloudy skies and animal movement.

Here are the pick of the litter:

The Big Boy Panda Bear.
Some bird relative of the rooster, but prettier.
Same bird, closer.
Same bird, even closer. I think he posed for me!
A bald eagle standing guard. And that's at 200mm.
A big cat at play.

Enjoy!

 

[Aharami]

amazing pics. so fvuking sharp. and there's nothing sexier than DSLR bokeh.

 

[Jawo]

I'll have my pics up in a few.....

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Aharami
amazing pics. so fvuking sharp. and there's nothing sexier than DSLR bokeh.

Thanks. I truly think the lens did 75% of the work!

Most of those shots were taken between 150 and 200mm, wide open at F4.0, ISO 100-400, with relatively modest shutter speeds ranging from 1/50 second to 1/400 second.

 

[BornStar]

Out of curiosity, are those the full image after cropping or did you resize?

edit: Forgot to add, beautiful shots!

 

[allies]

Any post processing? What camera do you have again?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: BornStar
Out of curiosity, are those the full image after cropping or did you resize?

I resized.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: allies
Any post processing? What camera do you have again?

Yes, some. Increased and decreased saturation of some colors, added a little contrast in some places. Other then resize, nothing was done to the "rooster" for images 2,3,4.

I have a 3-year-old EOS-20D.

 

[allies]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: allies
Any post processing? What camera do you have again?

Yes, some. Increased and decreased saturation of some colors, added a little contrast in some places. Other then resize, nothing was done to the "rooster" for images 2,3,4.

I have a 3-year-old EOS-20D.

Awesome stuff. Great shots

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: allies

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Originally posted by: allies
Any post processing? What camera do you have again?

Yes, some. Increased and decreased saturation of some colors, added a little contrast in some places. Other then resize, nothing was done to the "rooster" for images 2,3,4.

I have a 3-year-old EOS-20D.

Awesome stuff. Great shots

Thanks. My biggest regret is not having another 200mm for that eagle shot. They just sat in their nest in the corner of their enclosure. Was hard to get a good viewing angle on them.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Here are essentially the same shots without post-processing.

The larger image was resized but nothing else. The smaller image in each picture is a 100% crop of the focus point:

http://www.threewood.com/misc/70200/zoo/img01.jpg
http://www.threewood.com/misc/70200/zoo/img02.jpg
http://www.threewood.com/misc/70200/zoo/img03.jpg
http://www.threewood.com/misc/70200/zoo/img04.jpg
http://www.threewood.com/misc/70200/zoo/img05.jpg

 

[montanafan]

Very nice shots, GTaudiophile. Your focus point was spot on for each of them. .

 

[ElFenix]

god that lens is awesome

i kinda wish canon would bring out an EF-S 50-150 f/2.8L IS, but you know they'd charge $2500 for it.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
god that lens is awesome

i kinda wish canon would bring out an EF-S 50-150 f/2.8L IS, but you know they'd charge $2500 for it.

Yeah, would like one of those too. I bet they would charge $1000-1100 for it

Edit: I think a EF-S 55-150 F2.8 IS is more likely. I doubt we will ever see an EFS L lens.

 

[randomlinh]

I dunno, I really like the 70-200 range. a little upset I sold my f/4 non-is...but I couldn't realistically afford it considering it used it for one thing, and that was autocross which I have no time to shoot since i'm half helping run it, heh.

 

[dug777]

Cool pics

 

[Aharami]

Where be Jawo's pics?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: Aharami
Where be Jawo's pics?

He's still selecting at last word.